Southern Baltic area during the last deglaciation

• Main Author: Uścinowicz, Szymon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute 2013
• Subjects: Baltic Sea; Słupsk Bank; Southern Middle Bank; Pleistocene; Late Glacial; deglaciation; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/8189; https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.v43i2.8189

In the Polish economical zone of the Baltic Sea there are boulder fields (residuum of end moraines), remnants of end moraines, glaciofluvial deltas, eskers, and icedam lake deposits formed during a decay of the last Scandinavian ice sheet. Landforms and deposits of three ice marginal zones were distinguished in the Southern Baltic. The Gardno Phase probably corresponds to the Halland-West Skne Phase, dated at ca. 14 ka BP, and to the Middle Lithuanian Phase. The Słupsk Bank Phase is marked at a bottom of the Baltic Sea by boulder fields on the Słupsk Bank and by remnants of end moraines in the southern Bornholm Basin and the western Gdańsk Basin. It is to be correlated with the ice limit in Skne, dated at 13.5 ka BP, and with the North Lithuanian Phase at ca. 13.2 ka BP. The Southern Middle Bank Phase, marked by glaciofluvial deltas on this bank and by end moraines in the central Bornholm Basin, most probably corresponds to the ice margin in Skne, dated at 13.0-12.9 ka BP, and to the Otep Phase in the east.